[e63f67dd-065b]

There's 200k weekly downloads of node on npm. A million flutter devs means that there's a comparable amount of node devs to flutter. I'm not sure how else to estimate it, but there's 170k github stars of flutter compared to 100k node, and a roughly equal amount of forks.

The 2024 SO dev survey https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology/ has flutter at 10% and nodejs at 40%. Github language stats has JS about 10-15x the popularity of dart, but seeing as JS is more than just node it might pan out. https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2024/1

So I guess looking at the stats 1M flutter devs is not an implausible number on its face.

[notpushkin]

> There's 200k weekly downloads of node on npm.

I’m pretty sure Node developers usually don’t install Node from npm.

[yen223]

Yeah. For comparison, there are 27 million weekly downloads for React.

I'm not sure what conclusions we can draw from either number.

[monocasa]

Does nvm not use npm internally?

[pzo]

Github shows 98% of code is "Shell" on top of that there are also many different package managers that people use: fnm, volta that are build with rust. You can also install nodejs using homebrew.

[ramesh31]

>Does nvm not use npm internally?

No. It downloads binaries from nodejs.org. There is no "official" canonical means of managing Node versions. It's just a grab bag of community tools like NVM.

[nicce]

I would dare to say that average person who works with Node does not use nvm.

[chamomeal]

Really? I think it’s even recommended on the node website’s install page

[spankalee]

I use Node every day and I've never even heard of the 'node' package before. I think it's very niche.